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Right, you've got your medal, now get back up that bloody hill, and register a proper time, you slacker!!!Whoo hoo!! Just made Amateur 8 at an average of 255 Watts for 30 minutes - 2.89 w/kg JUST missed level 9!
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And you just joined the "Alpe d'Huez 30 mins and 3 seconds, woops just lost my connection" club.
Lads, Lads, take a chill pillRight, you've got your medal, now get back up that bloody hill, and register a proper time, you slacker!!!
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.Can't all be as dedicated as you guys
I won't be doing the 1st goat stage Bill, I'm off to Barcelona to run the marathon this w-end, so its all rest this week for me 
Will be back at it next week though! I probably would have done around 35mins though.... so just put me down for that 
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Will be back at it next week though! I probably would have done around 35mins though.... so just put me down for that for stage 1I won't be doing the 1st goat stage Bill, I'm off to Barcelona to run the marathon this w-end, so its all rest this week for me
35 mins sounds about right for you these days so I think Adam's going to use that to work out your start time for the D'Huez handicap race he's organising.
Hopefully your rest week will pay off for the marathon and you'll be in the peak of fitness for the race.
bobinski
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- Tulse Hill
I went to bed early last night having set bike on turbo, fan at ready, energy bar by the side, in the hope that i would get up bright and cheerful and have another go at 'Huez. Woke at 4, couldn't get back to sleep and so had to get up. No energy mind so left it. Very frustrating. Slow ride into work. Feel like its lunchtime already. Hope i can summon up the energy to have another go later. Moan moan moan!
I went to bed early last night having set bike on turbo, fan at ready, energy bar by the side, in the hope that i would get up bright and cheerful and have another go at 'Huez. Woke at 4, couldn't get back to sleep and so had to get up. No energy mind so left it. Very frustrating. Slow ride into work. Feel like its lunchtime already. Hope i can summon up the energy to have another go later. Moan moan moan!
I feel for you. Bkool and sleep don't go very well together.
Up too late at night on the turbo and you can have full on 3D mode nightmares of the Chain Gang usual suspects, coming past you as you look down at your ever reducing power meter readout. The only thing worse than that is when it happens for real 
Anyone got this (firmware?) update?
Very good question.
And No! I have not had the update. Not sure how I would get it anyway.
uncle_adolph
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- Chelmsford,Essex
Newcomer to using BKool....only got it on Sunday and three sessions so far.
I'm 58, slightly over-weight though I still do a bit of cycling. Most of the year I'll do about three or four rides a week, around 25 miles or so each time and pretty flattish though I can do a few hills if I want. And I try not to push myself too much....conscious of my age, I suppose!
When I get back from one of my cycles I feel absolutely fine; not saying I could necessarily do another 25 straight off but feel generally good. However, I have to say that even on flat routes I'm finding this trainer a bit like wading through treacle. I imported one of the rides which I did from my Garmin and this particular one, only 23km, I can do without any difficulty but on the BKool it was absolute purgatory. Even going up the slightest incline I was having to drop down gears; nothing like the gears I use out on the road even though I was using the same bike.
Apart from going back to 1995 and shedding 20 years from my age (and probably 20 pounds from my weight!) does anyone have any thoughts? I'm just hoping that my expectancy in buying this, that it would replicate my experience out on the road and help me get fitter,was not misplaced!
I'm 58, slightly over-weight though I still do a bit of cycling. Most of the year I'll do about three or four rides a week, around 25 miles or so each time and pretty flattish though I can do a few hills if I want. And I try not to push myself too much....conscious of my age, I suppose!
When I get back from one of my cycles I feel absolutely fine; not saying I could necessarily do another 25 straight off but feel generally good. However, I have to say that even on flat routes I'm finding this trainer a bit like wading through treacle. I imported one of the rides which I did from my Garmin and this particular one, only 23km, I can do without any difficulty but on the BKool it was absolute purgatory. Even going up the slightest incline I was having to drop down gears; nothing like the gears I use out on the road even though I was using the same bike.
Apart from going back to 1995 and shedding 20 years from my age (and probably 20 pounds from my weight!) does anyone have any thoughts? I'm just hoping that my expectancy in buying this, that it would replicate my experience out on the road and help me get fitter,was not misplaced!
Rob H
Eat, Sleep, Climb, Repeat
The new upfdate is harder just sayin....
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Geoff on Bkool
- Location
- South Somerset
From Bkool support ...
Not the most helpful response I could have gotten ...
So far they have asked me to check my weight, told me ONLY Bkool Trainers do this, then that Elite trainers ALSO do it ... and that my request has therefore been solved.
I have tried again ... I just got a response in Spanish to say my problem is being managed.
Geoff
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Geoff on Bkool
- Location
- South Somerset
This was not a firmware release, but a promised update to the simulator (Bkool Indoor) to address problems with installing the last firmware release! I guess it is late.
Geoff
